Irezumi
Irezumi (japanese for tattoo), also known as Kiss of the Spider Woman, is a drama from 1966 directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) based...
Category: Reviews
Wild Search
Ringo Lam‘s Wild Search is a Hong Kong crime drama released in 1989. Out of the films of that era, it’s not among the...
Maniac Cop Trilogy
The main reason I am writing this is the release of the two sequels, so I am gonna try to focus less on the...
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino‘s love for Spaghetti Westerns is well-known. Time and again, elements of Spaghetti Westerns have found a reference in his works. For instance,...
Elevator to the Gallows
“Crime doesn’t pay” is a well-defined trope explored in the world of cinema. A simpler examination of this trope could be in form of...
The Final Countdown
While US Senator Chapman (Charles Durning), his love interest and secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross) and an advisor take a break from politics on...
Two Evil Eyes
In 1990, a horror anthology movie came out that re-united two grand masters of the genre: Dario Argento (Opera) and George A. Romero (The...
Psycho II – How Awful about Norman Bates
Psycho II begins with the Bates Motel sign switching to ‘Vacancy’ and the famous shower sequence from its predecessor playing out in all its...
The Trouble with Norman Bates – Hitchcock’s Psycho
Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe...
The Suspect
The Suspect is not an arthouse action movie in the style of A Bittersweet Life (Jee-woon Kim, 2005) or The Man from Nowhere (Jeong-beom...
